Merry Christmas, everyone!

[PEI_Heather]

Merry Christmas to all who have walked the Camino Portuguese and all who are going to walk the Camino Portuguese (in body or spirit)!

From Heather in cold and very snowy Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

 

[Agnogel]

And a very merry christmas from the emerald isle

 

[haikutaxi]

Merry Christmas to all who have walked the Camino Portuguese and all who are going to walk the Camino Portuguese (in body or spirit)!

From Heather in cold and very snowy Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day from cape cod,Provincetown, MA

 

[Gailsie]

Hi Heather, don't know if you will remember me from emails before your Camino Frances, I am from snowy New Brunswick. I followed your Camino Portuguese and enjoyed it. If all goes well I hope to walk from Porto to SdC in April or May. I am waiting until after my eye specialist appointment in mid February to see make sure that I am OK to travel. Doing up preliminary plans as I really want to walk for my 65th

 

[PEI_Heather]

Hi Heather, don't know if you will remember me from emails before your Camino Frances, I am from snowy New Brunswick. I followed your Camino Portuguese and enjoyed it. If all goes well I hope to walk from Porto to SdC in April or May. I am waiting until after my eye specialist appointment in mid February to see make sure that I am OK to travel. Doing up preliminary plans as I really want to walk for my 65th

Hi Gailsie!
I'd have to retrace my email steps, I'm afraid. My brain is functioning at half speed these days!
I hope you weren't one of the folks who lost power over Christmas, but if you did, you were able to get it back soon.
If I can make a suggestion, start further into Portugal than Porto, if you have the time. Start at Azambuja or Santarum. You won't regret it!!! There is too much that you will miss only walking from Porto.
Cheers and Merry Christmas!
Heather in snowy PEI!
(And guess what--more to come. I guess we, meaning PEI and NB, are possibly getting another storm tonight. And in a few days. Winter like when I was a kid... Lots of snow!)

 

[PEI_Heather]

Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day from cape cod,Provincetown, MA

To you too!

 

[Doratheexplorer-13]

Merry Christmas from the rainy BC coast!

 

[Gailsie]

I don't know if I could handle all those 30+km days. I will have to check out my Brierley to see if I could start a bit farther than Porto.

 

[santaremhostel]

Merry Christmas from the rainy BC coast!

Merry Christmas to all who have walked the Camino Portuguese and all who are going to walk the Camino Portuguese (in body or spirit)!

From Heather in cold and very snowy Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Hi Heather, It's never too late to wish a Merry Christmas and (in time) wish all the best for the new year.
From Portugal with love the Radio Royal & The Royalettes here:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=556845994408848

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Enjoy and dance with Santa! (Dancei com o Pai Natal)
Mario

 

[Chignecto]

Hi Heather, It's never too late to wish a Merry Christmas and (in time) wish all the best for the new year.
From Portugal with love the Radio Royal & The Royalettes here:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=556845994408848

.
Enjoy and dance with Santa! (Dancei com o Pai Natal)
Mario

Merry Christmas to all who have walked the Camino Portuguese and all who are going to walk the Camino Portuguese (in body or spirit)!

From Heather in cold and very snowy Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Happy New Year from equally snowy Fredericton with more on the way tomorrow!! Portugal in September seems a lovely prospect. I am really drawn to see the cathedral in Santiago and the beaches at Finisterre again!!

 

[Urban Trekker]

Heather, a belated Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Joyous Kwanza, and Happy Hanukkah (haven't we gotten crazy about Christmas in the US), and a prosperous new year from cold and icy Sparks Nevada.

 

[PEI_Heather]

I don't know if I could handle all those 30+km days. I will have to check out my Brierley to see if I could start a bit farther than Porto.

You just do it. And you can do the Camino without Brierley. His book is not up-to-date (even though it is published every year). You can possibly do shorter distances than 30 in the first bit to work your way up to that. What do you think, Diogo?

 

[PEI_Heather]

Hi Heather, It's never too late to wish a Merry Christmas and (in time) wish all the best for the new year.
From Portugal with love the Radio Royal & The Royalettes here:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=556845994408848

.
Enjoy and dance with Santa! (Dancei com o Pai Natal)
Mario

Hi Heather, It's never too late to wish a Merry Christmas and (in time) wish all the best for the new year.
From Portugal with love the Radio Royal & The Royalettes here:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=556845994408848

.
Enjoy and dance with Santa! (Dancei com o Pai Natal)
Mario

Too true! I love the song, Mario! Feliz Natal e ano novo feliz 2014!

 

[PEI_Heather]

Happy New Year from equally snowy Fredericton with more on the way tomorrow!! Portugal in September seems a lovely prospect. I am really drawn to see the cathedral in Santiago and the beaches at Finisterre again!!

And more snow to come today. Yes! Get thee...and me!...over to Portugal! But not in September: NOW! Stat! (Brrrr.) (Returning outside to continue shoveling the 3' of snow off my front porch--so I can open my front door!)

 

[PEI_Heather]

Heather, a belated Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Joyous Kwanza, and Happy Hanukkah (haven't we gotten crazy about Christmas in the US), and a prosperous new year from cold and icy Sparks Nevada.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, Tony! (Shouting across the kilometers!) I hope you have been having a grand old time down there in the south! (Well, south for me!)

 

[Diogo92]

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas for you all! And a Happy New Year too!

I hope to see you all on the Camiño, either next year, or other future years. Everything good for you, with Health, Love and Happiness

Best Regards
Diogo

 

[Urban Trekker]

Sparks is on the eastern slopes of the Sierras. California, may it fall into the pacific, gets all the snow. We here in Nevada get all the cold.

Hope your customers are breaking down the doors to get in.

Tony

 

[PEI_Heather]

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas for you all! And a Happy New Year too!

I hope to see you all on the Camiño, either next year, or other future years. Everything good for you, with Health, Love and Happiness

Best Regards
Diogo

Belated Christmas greetings, Diogo and Happy New Year! I hope you celebrated well tonight and get to have a good sleep in tomorrow to bring the new year in!

 

[PEI_Heather]

Sparks is on the eastern slopes of the Sierras. California, may it fall into the pacific, gets all the snow. We here in Nevada get all the cold.

Hope your customers are breaking down the doors to get in.

Tony

Hahaha! I'll be the Californians (and the British Columbians--on the same fault line) would beg to disagree with that wish, Tony!

We've got all the snow and the cold: it's -17°C with a windchill of -25°C here right now (10:08 pm AST). That's warm though, considering Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) is -42°C with a windchill of -50°C!!!!
(Translated to 'Merican: 1.40°F with a windchill of -13°F here on PEI; in Yellowknife, -43.6°F with a windchill of -58°F. COLD!!!)

Well, if my clients and patients (we don't have customers...) are smart, they are hiring people to shovel out or plow out their snow! I've got a roofing company coming in on Friday to clean off the almost 3' of snow on (parts of) my roof! I keep telling them (clients) to come for massage if they get too 'involved' with their snow clearing, but they've been too busy with Christmas up to this point. I expect doors broken down next week! LOL

I hope you are having an awesome soon-to-be 2014, Tony! Happy New Year! Stay warm!!!

 

[Urban Trekker]

So far 2014 has sucked. My wife is in the hospital with pneumonia and new years eve I was in the ER. Appears I have developed a atrial flutter. Easy fix, however, I'll be on blood thinners for a while. I'll get all the details in AM. I'm sorry, I keep forgetting that you have the same weather in Canada as we have here. I was stationed in Billings Montana in the early 80s. The Siberian Express moved in and parked over Montana. In Billings we had a ambient air temp of -40f or -40c and wind chill factor of -70f or -56.67c and we were the warm spot in the state everywhere else was wind chill of -100f or -73.3c. It was warmer in Alaska.

 

[PEI_Heather]

So far 2014 has sucked. My wife is in the hospital with pneumonia and new years eve I was in the ER. Appears I have developed a atrial flutter. Easy fix, however, I'll be on blood thinners for a while. I'll get all the details in AM. I'm sorry, I keep forgetting that you have the same weather in Canada as we have here. I was stationed in Billings Montana in the early 80s. The Siberian Express moved in and parked over Montana. In Billings we had a ambient air temp of -40f or -40c and wind chill factor of -70f or -56.67c and we were the warm spot in the state everywhere else was wind chill of -100f or -73.3c. It was warmer in Alaska.

All I can say is: Brrrrr!

I hope your wife gets past the pneumonia quickly. One of the wonders of modern medicine is that pneumonia is not the life threatening condition as it once was; she is in good hands, Tony! And I was wondering about your own notes--I didn't see this one before getting your last one about everything with yourself checking out A-OK. I was thinking perhaps an earlier date you did tell my you had a heart condition and had suffered a heart attack at one point and I just couldn't remember. I'm glad to know it's "just" an atrial flutter and not something far more serious. Again, the miracles of modern medicine...you'll be fine, and maybe even more fine from the meds and care.

I have had an ear ache for the last number of days; heading to a walk in clinic on Monday to have someone have a look. I think it's from shoving ear plugs into my ears during my Porto-Santiago and Santiago-Finisterre-Muxia-Cee Camino...since the ear plugs do not even reduce the rumble of snoring (which keeps me awake), I find in my exhaustion, I try to squash them farther into my ear. I think I might have a build up of resultant leftover snores that got caught in my ear canal... Hahaha. (Shakes fist in mock anger at snorers!!!)

I've been sorting through stuff this day; off to a flea market tomorrow to try to sell it all. So the purge begins. I can't wait! 2014 is the year of decluttering for me. Who knows; maybe I'll find things that I thought I lost in all the junk I Have in my basement!! All extra money I make will be put into the Next Camino jar. Who am I kidding; it'll go into the Pay Off Bills jar (and maybe there'll be extra for a movie or two)!

Take care of you and yours, Tony!
Cheers,
Heather

 

[Diogo92]

So far 2014 has sucked. My wife is in the hospital with pneumonia and new years eve I was in the ER. Appears I have developed a atrial flutter. Easy fix, however, I'll be on blood thinners for a while. I'll get all the details in AM. I'm sorry, I keep forgetting that you have the same weather in Canada as we have here. I was stationed in Billings Montana in the early 80s. The Siberian Express moved in and parked over Montana. In Billings we had a ambient air temp of -40f or -40c and wind chill factor of -70f or -56.67c and we were the warm spot in the state everywhere else was wind chill of -100f or -73.3c. It was warmer in Alaska.

Pneumonia sucks. I had it when I was yonger, back in 1998 or 1999. The thing with me was that it happened to save my heart: when they discovered the pneumonia, they also discovered the beggining of Reumatic Fever. But it seem's that I'm probably having another case of RF, still waiting for the doctors appointment to re-schedule new exams. I don't want to go back to do Penicillium treatment. The one that I did years ago, it was a shot every day, for 40 days. My ass was black!

If I had to do it now, it's once every 21 or 30 days, but still, it hurts has hell

Everything good for you Tony, and also to your wife!

Best Regards
Diogo

 

[PEI_Heather]

Pneumonia sucks. I had it when I was yonger, back in 1998 or 1999. The thing with me was that it happened to save my heart: when they discovered the pneumonia, they also discovered the beggining of Reumatic Fever. But it seem's that I'm probably having another case of RF, still waiting fir the doctors appointment to re-schedule new exams. I don't want to go back to do Penicillium treatment. The one that I did years ago, it was a shot every day, for 40 days. My ass was black!

If I had to do it now, it's once every 21 or 30 days, but still, it hurts has hell

Everything good for you Tony, and also to your wife!

Best Regards
Diogo

Yiiiii! Take care of yourself, Diogo!!!!

 

[Diogo92]

Yiiiii! Take care of yourself, Diogo!!!!

I have to. I had TASO levels to high, but the doctor told me that doesn't mean that I'm having RF, just that I had a contact with a streptochochos bacteria. I'm not showing any kind of symptoms, but still, I'm goig to do the exams to check if everything it's ok.

I think I'll get my tonsils out, has a matter of prevention. And also because doctor told me that in the future I can suffer from sleep apnea.

Best Regards
Diogo

 

[PEI_Heather]

Tonsils used to be removed like it was a necessity but now the MDs and health scientists realize that they are a part of the immune system and not a dispensable body part. If we have it, it must be necessary, if not only useful for something! I got my tonsils out when I was 15 (old for the operation way back in the dark ages, when I was a kid!) but because of the number of times I had had strep throat and tonsillitis; I missed pretty well half of grade three because I was sick with these things so much. To have them out now (meaning these days) means that you really need them out! You must really need them out, Diogo (outside of preventative measures)! Here's the upside: you get all the ice cream you want after your tonsils are removed...and Oh! That ice cream feels soooo good on a raw and painful throat!

I hope, if you need to, that you will get the penicillin shots: what is another 40 days of your life and a bruised butt when it can reduce your chances of getting RF, which is far more serious!

(PS: Strawberry ice cream is probably not the best choice of flavours after getting your tonsils out; those strawberry bits and pieces would be painful going down the throat! Now chocolate or French vanilla... Mmmm!)

 

[Urban Trekker]

Diogo, I'm 64 and still have mine. They do get in the way of larger pills. Sometimes they get stuck on the right. 40 days of penicillin shots? are you sure. I don't know what type of penicillin or the strength but you were getting toxic levels of the drug. My wife and I are slowly getting better. I developed a heart condition New Years Eve. Have to wait until end of month to get fixed. In the mean time very restricted on activities. I can read books or play chess or checkers and that's about it for now. I'll be back to 100% by the end of February.

Bom Caminho

Tony